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Bellator 149 Results: Royce Gracie Defeats Ken Shamrock Amidst Controversy
Bellator MMA on Friday night tried to recapture a moment in time with a Bellator 149 main event that pitted mixed martial arts pioneers Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie against one another for the third time.
Gracie and Shamrock ignited the MMA fire in America at UFC 1 in November of 1993. They recaptured the controversy, but not quite the magic, on Friday night.
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As in most fights, they took the first couple minutes to feel each other out and gauge the distance.
About two minutes into the fight, they clinched and began exchanging knees, one of the knees from Gracie connected to Shamrock’s temple and he went down, curling up and covering his groin with his hands. Gracie dropped with him, landing several hammerfists before the referee waved off the fight.
Shamrock was immediately upset that the referee stopped the fight, claiming he was hit with a low blow. He got up and yelled, pointing at Gracie, “He did it on purpose! He did it on purpose!”
When the replay hit the big screen, the crowd rained down boos, seeing that prior to the knee to the head, Gracie had landed a knee to Shamrock’s groin.
It was too little, too late, however, as the low blow went unseen by the referee in the heat of the fight, and the bout had already been stopped.
Gracie never addressed the knee to the groin after the fight, saying, “I’m a fighter. I’m here to fight. We come from the beginning when there was no gloves, no rules, no time limit, no weight division.”
By the time he spoke to Bellator commentator Jimmy Smith in the cage, Shamrock’s temper had cooled considerably.
“I’m disappointed. I came here to fight. I was ready to go however long it went. I’m just disappointed,” he said quietly.
“I got upset. I was wrong for getting upset because it wasn’t Royce’s fault. It’s just… I really wanted this.”
Heading into the fight, most felt there was a strong possibility that it would be the final fight in both men’s storied careers.
With a sour ending to the trilogy, but with Gracie winning all three fights, is there room, and time, for a fourth?
